Towards Building Disaster Resilient Communityin Indian Himalayan Region
through Non-formal Education and Awareness
Rashmi Gangwar and Abdhesh GangwarCEE Himalaya
Centre for Environment Education (CEE) Baramulla, Jammu & Kashmir
India http://www.ceehimalaya.org
• Shelter• Livelihood• DRR Education• Capacity Building• Village contingency
plans• Civil society
organization
Disaster preparedness through non-formal educationFor students as extracurricular activity
Activities • Risk Mapping• Mock drills• School safety checklist • Count down• Concentration• Chinese whisper/pass
the message • Disaster Management
Committees
Teaching • Disasters definition• Risk and Vulnerability• Types of Disaster • Major & Minor Disasters • Hazards • Landslide• Earthquake• Avalanche• Cloud-burst • Flood• Fire• Epidemics
DRR Module
Capacity building for Teachers & Teacher Trainers
1. Awareness amongst teachers about the importance of disaster preparedness
2. Inculcate necessary skills to mitigate the impact of disasters
3. Orientation for disaster mitigation education as per the CBSE syllabus
4. Climate change and its possible impact
5. Child rights in general & particularly during the disaster situations
6. Orientation towards activity based, participatory joyful teaching and learning
7. Activities: mapping of school premise for disaster proneness, mock drills and evacuation, making evacuation plan of the schools, identification of possible disasters that can occur in the area, First Aid, fire safety etc.
Community Awareness on Disaster Preparedness
Cultural and Transitional barriers
Focus on attitude behaviour training
NFE: Adult Learning Principals
Participatory Learning Action (PLA)
Information sharing
Traditional adaptation mechanisms
Gender Inclusion
Mainstreaming gender in the process
Mapping of vulnerable target groups to respond accordingly
Mapping of factors that render women vulnerable
Added burden on women during disaster situation
Plan of Action (PoA) at village level
Tools of PoA• Historical Profile of village• Village Resource Mapping - Social
& Natural• Hazard mapping • Risk mapping• Opportunities mapping
Environmental and natural resource management
Sustainable livelihoods
Social Inclusion
Insurance
Physical infrastructure
Responsibility and resource allocation
Participation, voluntarism and accountability
Role of local authorities
Linkages with all relevant departments at local level
Strategies towards prompt response and relief by community
Psychosocial care
AWARENESS ON…
Actions
Sanitation and Health
Protection
Rescue operations First aid Fire fighting
Information dissemination
Climate change, which the scientific community now accepts as certain and to have far-reaching consequences, will exacerbate
vulnerability of communities to new forms of disaster particularly in the fragile ecosystems like mountains
Climate Change & Related Awareness
Adaptation measures at local level
Community preparedness
PARTNERSOxfam GBWelthungerhilfe (German Agro Action) Plan IndiaCare IndiaGive2AsiaMridula Sarabhai Foundation
Towards Building Disaster Resilient Community in Indian Himalayan Region through Non-formal Education and Awareness